According to Qi Zhiping, executive vice general manager of M Macalline Nanjing, the M Macalline Qinhuai store will be open in Nanjing in September 2008.

Ikea's Shenzhen store will open at European City today, making it Ikea's fifth store in China after it opened stores in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Chengdu.

Che Jianxin, president of M Macalline, said at a cooperation signing ceremony held in Shangri-La Hotel, Chengdu that M Macalline would invest RMB600 million to jointly build its second Chengdu store with the construction materials firm Tungtai Group.

Leroy Merlin, a French decorative and constructional materials chain supermarket, has opened its second Beijing store at Dajiaoting after entering the Beijing market for more than three years.